Off the coast of Japan, thousands of feet below the surface, the seafloor explodes with heat. Cracks and vents in the rocky sediment allow boiling seawater heated by subterranean magma to shoot ...

Over the past two decades, the Gulf of Maine has become a popular landing spot for invasive species from across the world, ...

An unusual sea creature washed up on a Miami beach ... Amy Troyer joked: "I’ve seen those in my shell books! You can’t ...

Snails are marvelous but unassuming little creatures. As shelled members of the taxonomic class Gastropods within the phylum ...

A man shared his close call with a deadly textile cone snail while snorkeling in Egypts Red Sea. Initially unaware of the ...

The Oregon Zoo shared a video last week of one of its resident sea otters indulging in a slimy, salty snack. It’s a ...

Sea scallops are part of the bivalve family because the animals inside create their own shells through the secretion of calcium carbonate, according to the Ocean Conservancy. The animals swim by ...